Sojourner Hardeman is a 42-year-old former law firm assistant who quietly panhandles on Fifth Avenue near 56th street, advertising her computer and typing skills with a cardboard sign. She makes enough for a MetroCard, a storage space, food and a phone bill. But the NYPD's Midtown North Precinct, shocked at seeing an endangered species on their turf, arrested her for disorderly conduct this spring. Hardeman filed a lawsuit challenging the bogus detention, and was repeatedly harassed and ticketed last month because of it, the Times reports. "You can't be here. This is Fifth Avenue," the officers told her. In the NYPD's defense, the sanctity of the Build-A-Bear Workshop must be protected at all costs.
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DEA Raids Drug Dens Where Best Friend Bears Were Made With Heroin
Build-a-Bear has made a name for itself over the last decade by letting passers-by take a bird's eye view of the their bears getting stuffed inside workshops around the country. But yesterday police caught up with a group of criminals in The Bronx who have been filling up the teddy bears with bags of heroin over the last year right under their unsuspecting neighbors' noses.
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